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Table 4 Tobacco Control attitudes and beliefs: MLR2

From: Smoking behaviour predicts tobacco control attitudes in a high smoking prevalence hospital: A cross-sectional study in a Portuguese teaching hospital prior to the national smoking ban

Dependent variable

      
 

HSFP agreement

 

SHSHE

 

NSB

 

Independent Variable*

Wald p value

Odds ratio

(95% C.I.)

Wald p value

Odds ratio

(95% C.I.)

Wald p value

Odds ratio

(95% C.I.)

Gender

0.19

0.73

(0.46-1.17)

0.81

0.95

(0.62-1.46)

0.59

1.15

(0.70-1.88)

Smoking status

< 0.001

4.29

(2.70- 6.79)

< 0.001

4.50

(2.52-8.04)

0.002

2.65

(1.43-4.92)

Professional group

0.46

0.84

(0.53-1.33)

0.01

1.65

(1.11-2.46)

0.58

1.14

(0.71-1.82)

Model explanation

79.9%

-

73.7%

-

81.1%

-

Hosmer and Lemeshow test

Chi value = 1.52; df = 5

p = 0.91

Chi value = 1.11; df = 5

p = 0.95

Chi value = 8.86; df = 6

p = 0.18

  1. *Gender: male (1), female (0); Smoking status: non smoker (1), smoker (0);
  2. Professional group: role models - nurses and physicians (1); all the others (0)
  3. HSFP - Agreement with Hospital Smoke-Free Policy
  4. SHSHE - Disagreement with Second Hand Smoke Hospital Exposure
  5. NSB - attitudes and beliefs to the National Smoking Ban
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